Hong Kong by the numbers, 25 years after the handover
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At midnight on July 1, 1997, Britain relinquished sovereignty over its colony of Hong Kong, leading to the establishment of the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong under the People’s Republic of China. Under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the UK and China agreed that Hong Kong would operate under a principle of “one country, two systems” for a period of 50 years. Twenty-five years on, the Post looks at Hong Kong by the numbers, midway through that half-century arrangement.
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Inflation is not happening to KongKong only. Rent has skyrocketed in US as well in 25 years so has the taxi charges.
KongKong? Is he a cousin to KingKong?
the main driver of high cost of living in Hong Kong is real estate. most of the undeveloped lands are concentrates in few hands. they are the main opponents of affordable housing because it would lessen the value of their holdings. the elected representatives represent the dozen of families rather than the people. sounds familiar?
they control utlilities, food (supermarkets), housing, transportation, etc. they even funded the riots because it affects their way of doing business. 😁😁
Housing price is the main factor of the problems. It is controlled by the four riche families in HK. And these thugs trying to switch the blame on the government so that they can keep leeching money. Only Less than 30% of the real estate of the entire HK been used to built hk houses and apartments. 70% or more remained in the hands of these 4 rich families.
WHITE HEGEMONIES!!!!!!
Nope, only US top cities.
Not an ideal place to raise a child...
I agree, raising a child in a 3rd or 4th tier city would be my preference since the cost is significantly lower than raising children in megacities
Yh I’m highly developed cities like Tokyo is the same
not cheap probably one of the most expensive places on earth
but its also one of the safest places to bring up children
Is that why rich Chinese send their children overseas to live like uncle Xi.
@@wynn3077 in some places yes, however, most rich families send their children out and one of the main reasons are:
The education is better outside or education is cheaper and easier yet still give better or the same results as the prestigious universities in your country.
HK is a beautiful city and will grow further to be one of the most important hubs in the world!
I genuinely want to know, what is it that makes hong kong so cool, or gives it lots of promise for the future?
@@Sam_A_Sam the people future its fuked
As Chinese people are working hard, after 25 yrs all cities and territories in china will be financially as strong as HK and thus everything will be fine...
and also many of them will be Stronger than HK financially...
Many cities in mainland are already much stronger in terms of GDP. Even across the ocean Shanzen and Guangdong are bigger already and many more
@@eyob8969 There are no oceans that separate Hong Kong from the rest of the Bay Area. You can literally walk from Hong Kong to Shenzhen and then Guangzhou. No need to take a bridge nor ship
@@handywijaya3689 oh I didn’t know that. But didn’t they make a bridge between HK, Macau and shenzen? If you can walk between them why not just build a road on land?
@@eyob8969 It connects the other side of the Pearl River Delta.
@@eyob8969 Macau is located on the other side of the bay, while Hong Kong shares land border with China (Shenzhen). The bridge is built to connect Hong Kongers with Macau and Zhuhai, as the bridge was split in two. One goes to Zhuhai and one goes to Macau
Hope HK continues to grow!
At first I read “25 years after the hangover” 😐
As an Asian from ASEAN, I kindda feel it for Hong Kong, because they are stuck in between China and West. It's really not easy and I think ASEAN will support you. It's a bit like Australia, where sometimes, they have to balance between focusing on Asia and West. But, of course, Hong Kong predicament is far worst because it deals with the governance/politics.
Australia has never felt like a member of Asia
You know nothing about HK. Worry about your country, you have enough issues there
You don't know Hong Kong. You don't know Australia either. You don't know yourself either.
? since when is australia asian?????
there has never been any contest as to australia's anglic origins.
Stop worrying about Hong Kong. Those people who don’t like China and the CCP have left a long time ago in the 1990’s.
In the comment there are many who are not from China, but they are criticizing China every day, that is their job, they are living from it. If one day you ask them, would you like to travel to China to eat traditional food from there? They will surely answer yes!
@J M so you have never been to China but your an expert on china , thats like being a champion swimmer who has never been in water...
@J M so you have never been to china but you’re an expert in china, come on man I respect you if you don’t wanna go to china, but you’re just repeating what western media is saying about china, I suggest you watch some videos of westerners who are actually living in china and then tell me again that the chinese are suffering.
@@JamAteJam Lol if China was so beautiful and great why don't you use Youku or Bilibili instead of CZcams??
The fact that Mainland Chinese like you prefer using US-made stuff like CZcams instead of Chinese-made already told me enough that China is a disaster
This video doesn’t take a lot of factors into consider. I wonder who created this.
Jack Ma bought the rag, Murdoch org manages the SCMP.
A chinese talking like a high on mary jane brit
@@Francisco81a Hong Kong is China, no matter how hard you cry in your mom's basement XD
@@mechacream hush made in china 'brit'
Long live mainland China and hk sar
I wish i could go to HK once again if there is no COVID-19, so sad
@@oscarpang6013 me too
25 years after the hangover
The number of people who speak English gone up? That's interesting
It's better than speaking Cantonese
@@MultiverseRaidenWarriors So?
Maybe because English is more common for younger generation?
Most Gen Z are fluent in English
They want to espace the commies
They're only dreaming to escape
No wonder
the SAR agreement has already expired :)
I am surprised that there are 1 Indonesian in 50 people in HK
I am sure majority of them are Domestic Helpers, but the number is still unexpectedly high
Indonesia and Philippines export a lot of domestic helpers.
surpise too..never met an indo but met alot of nepalese and pinoys
There are numerous Indonesian and Filipinos working as migrant workers in Hong Kong, specifically as domestic helpers. There are also significant numbers of Nepalese, Indian, and Pakistani as well.
@@camlee2341 To be fair, if you met ladies wearing headscarf (hijab) during holidays, she is 99% likely an Indonesian.
@@rg9448 They like to hang out and sit on cardboard or mat at the nearby park or MTR station every weekend.
What about jackie chan & his change in the last 25 years?
Contrary to Western Propaganda, the future of Hong Kong is bright and the best is yet to come !!!
Contrary to Chinese evil propaganda, HK will fall just like China will.
It's not a handover. It's a lease return.
Thatcher said what if GB doesn't hand back Hong Kong to China. Deng simply said he will send the PLA to take it back. Thatcher almost felled when she walked down the stairs. 😁😁
Read the agreement. Only the New Territories that were leased by the British from China. The Hong Kong Island is technically owned by the British but it was given back to China alongside the New Territories
That agreement already expired
Please ask the chinese goverment to buy more share of CCB Indonesia stock (MCOR).. ccb has 60% ccbi .. the price has dropped 80% from the highest..
What this has to do with hongkong silly??
This not handover but returned to China, if handover that means British lose territory to china. 😂 British army so weak they lose to china.
與殖民地政府冇太大分别?英國人及中國大陸人只當香港會生金蛋?大灣區投資竟然是香港人?No big difference between colony government ? British and Mainland Chinese only see Hong Kong will birth golden egg ? Big Bay region only investment from Hong Konger ?
雷系度狗叫乜野？？？😡
我中英文都读了但是没看懂你的comment
the nationality numbers are meaningless
Literary all that data shows is that there is some more Filipinos and Indonesians
OC 90% report as being Chinese, because hongkonger is not a nationality, born in hongkong or china they are still Chinese nationals there is no other option to report
and back in the 90's the 60% british number was mostly the 60% of the 90% who now claim to be chinese, because the land is no longer british
And it's a real brolly buster that day was just like July 1st 1997
Yes Hong Kong still maintain Border Controls with Zhen Zhen and issued different Passports !
yeah, it is unique, that defines why it is autonomous, a special administrative region of China
Cantonese is becoming minority in their own territory that they build.
What? The number of Cantonese speakers is above 80% and it has only dropped 2% in 25 years. How are they even close to becoming a minority.
Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese , Cantonese is a dialect spoken by the guangdong province and a large part of guangxi province……
Cantonese is not a dialect
contonese is a dialect
@@moover123 cantonese has a lot of similarities to Mandarin and they may sound definitely in some kind of way but they use the same writing system so I will consider Cantonese as a dialect more
@@moover123 Have you ever heard of American English and British English?
@@moover123 cantonese is a dialect, and canton people(including HKer) is han chinese.
Indonesian as always have its main maritime gene, always exploring 🤣🤣
Indonesians are big spenders abroad. Which is why Indonesians are being favored by Singapore and Saudi Arabia due to their generous shopping habit
The numbers would have been much better if not for the rioters in 2019
yes+covid19
Free hong kong
@@Nameless_TF Goofy ahh comment
Hong Kong would be better if CCP collapsed
@@raymil Hong Kong would be ripped apart by the pirates in the west if CPC collapsed
Hong Kong without the UK had prospered
25 years of end of British colonialism 👍
Poor Hong Kong under the boot of the CCP now.
i don't care about china as i am iranian ... but hong kong people don't seem very happy living under mainland china considering the protests and arrests that have taken place
ok
Well Done Hong Kong! You managed to return to fully China in half the 50 years time given!!!
Well done, people have been happy and rejoicing on the streets since 2019
They had no choice the CCP forced it with their wicked security laws. Not to mention the shameful election where you had to be CCP approved to stand. Hong Kong people gave China the finger by not voting.
Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997. The National Security Law did not break the agreement with the British.
HK is a province of China. The british stole and later so called 'leased' it. Now back to its motherland.💪🇨🇳
Yup! Chinese (including HK under British rule) were never under any form of so called Western one citizen one vote democracy... Always been under autocratic imperial or CCP rule
The CCP says that HK was never a British colony, so there was never a handover. It belonged to China but ruled by the British somehow.
Yes. That’s correct. Clearly you haven’t heard of a concept called colonization? If you haven’t noticed, Hong Kong is a bit far away from Britian, and is on Chinese land. The people who live there are Chinese. But the land was stolen by British imperialists who were stealing and conquering land all over the world, like many of the European powers at this time. The British conquered Hong Kong, the Chinese gathered their power and reunited their country under the Communist Party, and then got Britain to return this rightfully Chinese land. I fail to see what’s confusing about that?
@@code8825 To anyone who actually knows HK's history, your ludicrous rewrite on what actually happened makes you look like an absolute clown. China "gathered their power"?? What, like communist Avengers or something? My goodness. You're intelligence level is that of a jar of mayonnaise
That's what colonisation is kiddo
Well yeah, Britain never owned HK, but leased it from China for 99 years.
From the border of Shenzhen to HK, the land in between was on a 100 year lease which expired in 1997.
Wrong, we don't describe ourselves as "Chinese Nationals", we call ourselves as "Hong Kongers"
Resistance is futile
Hong Kong is part of pearl river delta, which is part of Canton, which is part of China. If some “Hong Kong Chinese” does not think of Hong Kong as part of China, then please leave China, which means leave Hong Kong.
This is how countries can change perception. Right now china is doing it for hong Kong & afterwards for Taiwan.
Mr India you are doing this for 70 years to north eastern people of India and Ladakh, kashmiri people, south indian people.
@@wakhansharma8225 elaborate please
how about Sikkim&Bhutan?
@@user-uz6qy8hd9l both are beautiful place & everyone should visit it peacefully.
@@darshanpatel9006 use sikkim visa or india visa???
👌👌👌✌️✌️✌️👏👏👏
HK doing ok today
Really?
Real estate is soo expensive there! People live in houses the size of cages! And that's not the only problem!
@@eee1925 look at the bright side talking abt the bad side makes our country look bad
@@eee1925 ask china gov to interfere then but then again it would be a violation of 1c2s
@@frey880 hong kong is an amazing place, their culture, food, and people are great, its not their fault the real estate is so expensive
@@eee1925 yh just like Tokyo that’s the future for all mega cities
So in other words, the boys in Beijing are preparing the people of Hong Kong for that rude awakening 25 years in advance.
How about consider themselves Hong Konger as nationality or ROC
Hong Konger isn't a nationality. ROC nationality would still be Chinese
Educate yourself, u should know that identity can be categorized 3 category.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Residency.
The term of HongKonger it's just term for Residency.
As Chinese it's have 2 meaning, Nationality and also Ethnicity.
Taiwanese, HongKonger, Beijingnese it's just for residency.
For Taiwan, there is no "Taiwanese" as ethnicity unless it's Aborigine Taiwan.
@@yogawan3805 asked?
@@MultiverseRaidenWarriors me i asked
I am not sure about the other option but being part of ROC is big no when Taiwan is trying to cut every possible ties with Chinese in general. (Like going back and claim they are proud Formosan Taiwanese instead of being Taiwanese Chinese) Which means Hong Kong is in their exclusion list. They don’t want to retake China or merge with Hong Kong, they just want to be a small independent Taigi speaking country that have zero connection to Chinese culture.
🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🦸🦸🦸🦸fly free taiwan 🦸🦸🦸🦸🦸🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Should of stayed under the crown
you should probably worry about your own country first.
Is it any of your business?
@@brendon1689 The ccp should worry about oppressing its people
Colonist always have colonists mentality, that why until now they still stealing from around the world
@@malakatan3235 tell me a colonial empire that exists now.
Chinese should change her mind.
To like India that is somehow still the colony of Britain ? Maybe Indian proud of that used to be colony and speaking English,but not the case in China
The HK people are mostly Cantonese and understand liberty and freedom unlike the mainland Chinese people who live under the thumb of CCP. Mainlanders too have been migrating to western nations for years to live free. They learn English, copy western people just to be like them.
@@michaelliu374 Hey "Michael" how come 100 percent Chinese take English names when they move abroad? Why are they ashamed to use their Chinese full names? Trying to copy even western names seems so desperate. Lol.
@@ichigodragon. So that non-Chinese speaking people have an easier time pronouncing their names?
@@oldshoes4290 Nope. The mainland Chinese are literally the only people who take English names. It's cringe worthy the way they try to copy everything from the west. Yet "Michael" made it clear the mainland Chinese don't like to speak English. Lol. The reality however is very different. They can always take Japanese sounding names.
Hongkong is soverign Country
Not after Mr Lee finished with it.
Then donetsk,Luhansk,Abkhazia, and south Ossetia are all countries by your logic? Okay then 👍
It wasn’t under the British and it isn’t under the Chinese.
yeah is all up to u,come on boy.
Never was and never will HK is a sovereign country
So in 1996 hong kong was majority white dafaq LOL
More like Chinese who considered themselves British under colonial brainwashing.
Nope. HK never have majority White population. The one who claimed themselves as 'British' during the census are probably Chinese who feel like they were British as they are born in a British territory and subjected to British teaching like Donald Tsang
HONGKONG IS FROM JAPAN PEOPLE
huh?
invaders confess
?
Propaganda by china the finest
Feeling jealous right, Westerner. Manage y'all s failed homelessness, healthcare, education, unemployment, wage, energy and many more crisises.
hh